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Blog
August 17, 2017
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Ramona Wadi
Latin America is once again Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's diplomatic target, at a time when violence in the region fomented by US imperialism is once again rising to...
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced yesterday the appointment of former German President Horst Köhler as the UN envoy for Western Sahara. Köhler has more than 35 years of experience...
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A Kurdish official has denied remarks conveyed by an Israeli MK claiming that Kurdish officials visited Israel and asked for their help in seeking independence from Iraq, Anadolu reported...
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The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for a senior Libyan commander who is linked to General Khalifa Haftar and who is suspected of involvement in numerous...
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A former United Nations human rights investigator and emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University in the US said it was "clear that all the major issues international...
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Article
August 15, 2017
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Haifa Zangana
One of the changes US President Donald Trump has been working to make since his presidency is a change to the laws regarding humanitarian food aid to the world,...
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More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization...
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Article
August 14, 2017
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Mohamed Elshabrawy
A question has been continuously asked since the dispersal of the Rabaa and Al-Nahda squares on 14 August 2013. This question is related to the international silence that surrounded...
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Tony Blair was "secretly bankrolled" by the UAE while employed as the Middle East Envoy. Leaked emails obtained by a leading UK newspaper revealed that Blair was receiving millions...
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The Yemeni governorate of Taiz hosts 15 per cent of the internally displaced Yemenis, the Anadolu Agency reported the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) saying yesterday. Om Twitter,...
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Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa arrived Sunday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad for an unscheduled visit. He will meet Iraqi President Fuad Masum and Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi...
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Four Arab countries that imposed sanctions on Qatar have told the United States that US companies doing business with them would not be punished for also working with Doha,...
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Iraq's World Cup qualifier against the United Arab Emirates next month has been moved to the Jordanian capital Amman from Tehran, Iran, an Iraq Football Association (IFA) spokesman told...
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Felipe Grande, is due to visit Sudan on Sunday to inspect refugee camps in the eastern Darfur region, a Sudanese official...
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A political crisis in Gaza is depriving two million people of electricity, vital medical care and clean water in sweltering summer temperatures, the United Nations human rights office said...
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A German court today sentenced three Syrian men for running a smuggling ring from Turkey to Europe over the deaths of 13 migrants in the Mediterranean two years ago....
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Fourteen Shia Saudi zitizens are at "imminent risk of execution" after Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in an "unfair trial" based on confessions made under torture over protest-related...
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The retired General Anthony Zinni, who was despatched to the Gulf by the US in an attempt to defuse the Qatar crisis, is reported to be the honorary chairman...
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The Israeli occupation's forces have recently seized electricity-producing solar panels at the Bedouin community camp of Abu Al-Nawar, according to local sources. Abu Al-Nawar's representative and local community leader,...
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Spain witnessed a three-fold increase in refugees entering the country using the sea-route this year when compared to the same period last year, the UN migration agency said today....
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Kuwait began enforcing economic sanctions against North Korea Thursday that include eliminating direct flights to and from that country, said a source in Kuwait's Foreign Ministry. He reiterated his country's...
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UNICEF warned yesterday that more than half a million children in Libya need help and called on warring parties to end the violence and negotiate a political solution to...
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Human rights groups have accused the Iraqi authorities of issuing arrest warrants for at least 15 lawyers simply because they were representing clients suspected of being members of Daesh....
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Thousands of migrants and refugees trapped in Libya, especially women, are being raped, tortured, robbed and enslaved, Oxfam warned today. In a report entitled "You aren't human any more",...
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN's special envoy to Yemen, arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday in hopes of reviving stalled Yemen peace talks. While in the Saudi capital, Ould...
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About 50 Somali and Ethiopian refugees, mostly teenagers, were "deliberately" drowned on Wednesday by a human smuggler who forced 120 migrants into the sea off Yemen's coast, the International...
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The Kurdish referendum which is due to be held in September aims at breaking the region "away from Iraq", the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, said...
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Qatar Airways has begun flying over the embargo countries under international agreements that Doha has recently used to put pressure on the four countries boycotting Qatar. Qatar Television stated...
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Israel is maintaining a two-tier system in Jerusalem, Human Rights Watch has warned, adding that this is illustrated by the fact that the residency of thousands of Palestinians in...
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Qatar has been "treated unfairly" and the reason behind the Arab country's siege on it is not its alleged support for terrorism, but Al Jazeera, the former Iraqi Ambassador...
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Yemen's national blood bank may be forced to close due to a lack of money after an international medical charity decided to end two years of support, the director...
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August 8, 2017
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Amelia Smith
The announcement of Israeli communications minister Ayoub Kara this weekend that he would revoke the press credentials of journalists working at Al Jazeera 's office in Jerusalem and shut...
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